FTC Chair Edith Ramirez President Obama has appointed Edith Ramirez to chair the Federal Trade Commission; since she already serves on the FTC, this thankfully does not require Senate confirmation. [read post]

The judicial ethics Complaint against US Court of Appeals Judge Edith Jones was transferred to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia pursuant to an order of Chief Justice John Roberts. [read post]

The Oldsmobile 88 convertible threw Ruth Kligman clear of the death wreck and back into a long life, in which she was not only able to write that description of how her lover Pollack killed himself and her friend Edith Metzger, but she got to paint her own abstract expressionist paintings and to become — if I am to believe this NYT obituary — a great muse: Irving Penn and Robert Mapplethorpe made portraits of her; Willem de Kooning, with whom she was romantically involved,… [read post]

A reader, Robert Richards, very helpfully writes of the following articles in the Journal of British Studies that may be of interest to other readers: Stephen Banks, Killing with Courtesy: The English Duelist, 1785-1845, 47 JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES 528 (2008) Lucy Bland, The Trials and Tribulations of Edith Thompson: The Capital Crime of Sexual Incitement in 1920s England, 47 JOURNAL OF [read post]